I noticed a lot of "sarcastic" posts get first moded as flamebait. I suspect that with slashdot users coming from all over the world, they might know how to read in English but they might not understand the tone of the what is being said.
Is like translating a joke, it looses all meaning and it might end up offending the audience.
/English is my second language
//Have seen/heard pretty weird situations where cultural differnces are hard to transalate in another language.
///I'm not excusing the moderator, just trying to find an explanation.
Well maybe at the very least you need to assing a plane old name to each machine so you can make lookups with a "hosts" file.
Names don't need to be ".com" if they are used on a LAN. You can very well do "ftp saturn" or "telnet goofy" as long as those names can be reliably resolved to an ip address on the LAN.
I'm coming from the Windows world so maybe I'm not making any sense.
But wouldn't you agree that the Chinese government lacks some of the democratic customs practiced in most of the world and that they excessively opress their people for acts that we take for granted?
Given thier long history of foreing ocupations and wars I understand that they want to ignore outside influence, but now by opening up economically it is hard to define what has happened to their communist ideals.
Funny it triggers after mayor news events in the west, i.e. death of princess Diana. Or reacts to what is reported on the 'western' media reports.
So apparently the rest of the world is not important enough for this thing to react to. Africa, North Caucasus, Nepal, Haiti... Have all had their share of human disasters but haven't been lucky enough for this generator to count them.
And the article itself mentions: "Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always some global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to detect patterns in their raw data?"
I think the interoperability asked by the parent post could be implemented in Outlook (or what ever mail client) by doing the steps you mentioned (copy file, execute file, manipulate data, re-attach to email) in the background so it would appear seamless to the user.
And all we are seeing is just a small window where all these processes are taking place. This little window would be the sandbox where there is no implicit security, the only operations are print, read and save on the same attachment.
Man, why don't you tell us why you really hate Java.
No, Java is not suitable (or useful) for what an engineer would call a "critical" application. Those applications are coded in C or C++ (or Assembler).
I'm using java because that was the business decision made by my boss (or my boss' boss). So I'm just told what I have to do (what interface the user expects, what system I have to connect to, etc.) But for the company I work for, Java might be a critical part of their business plan.
For example, you won't find java in a heart monitor in the hospital but probably find the server that keeps your health records is done in Java. Whoever is developing the Health record system can (more or less) pass the code to a new developer to continue working on it without expecting the new guy to be an expert on that particular system.
Anyway, this could all be bullshit if sound coding practices are not follow on ANY language.
Maybe because of the "delicate" relationship Apple has with MS, they just released iWork with the Word Processor and are waiting to see if it picks up.
Later they can add the spreadsheet as a normal "upgrade" if market share starts to increase.
/I can't beleive they wouldn't have a spreadsheet planned right now.
You can make a living as a programmer but you have to reinvent yourself every 3 years.
Otherwise you will fall into the trap that you mentioned. Say if you've been doing VB for 5 years, suddenly you are in big competition with everybody else or that type of work is quickly drying out.
So what do you do, like you say, to show 'forward progress' in your resume? You either take a management job (based on your VB experience) or update yourself (i.e. java,.Net, perl, php, etc). And it is very likely that you will need to move on to another company that seeks people in that new knowledge.
Sometimes when I'm trying to get up to date I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
For example, 2 or 3 years ago the rage was building around XML. After trying to understand it, I figured it was just a hierarchical descripiton of data in a text file (and is still is!!).
But what I'm understanding now is that practically all data that needs to be shared in a distributed system needs to be represented in XML. And if you manage to keep the XML data, you could do XSLT on it to add value before it reaches its destination.
And now with Web Services taking off, it all looks so obvious now...... Anyway, my point is, even updating your knowledge requires you to invest time and have patience until the market demands you to deliver on that new knowledge.
Yes, but it only takes one "ingenius" application that requires to download/upload several kBytes/sec to change that.
TV on demand, VOIP and Internet gaming are a few I can think of. It only takes the right marketing to generate demand and as long as they match the requirement of having DSL/Cable, everybody and my dog could be downloading megastuff.
Yes, but because so many people where caught in the same situation AND it apparently is not a deffect that shows on ALL phones, is a little harsh to critizice them.
Of course now in hindsight everybody is kicking themeselves in the rear, but how could you possibly forsee this (for this particualr model). I bet some of these persons saw a glowing review or where promised wonders by the sales staff and that helped them decide.
Is not always black and white and that is the typical attitude I see in slashdot and newsgroups when arrogant geeks try to know it all and kick you down every chance they get. (I'm not implying that of you but that was my first thought when I read your reply, and made me click the reply button in a flash)
When you go and buy a phone you first go looking for products that have SOME expetected reputation in their brand name.
Your comparison with a Porsche fails because you it is perfectly normal to have problems with a brand new Porsche, and guess what? You would still go to the dealer and get it fixed!
I couldn't help noticing Mr. Lindsay explanations of what a process would or could do. He kept describing it in the first person:
- "You asked me to do X, I didn't do it." - "Aha, this seems like I should go further." - "Oh, I see this as one of those really bad ones." - "I'm going to initiate the massive dumping now."
Obviously he is an expert in his field but I'm not sure if he talks this way because of his personality or because there isn't a vocabulary big enough to describe it.
Would you imagine a medical doctor talking this way?
- "So the white blood cells fight with the cancer cells: die evil cell, die!!"
Or an engineer:
- "The little peg ask it's big brother : can you help me convert this energy into circular motion?"
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I noticed a lot of "sarcastic" posts get first moded as flamebait. I suspect that with slashdot users coming from all over the world, they might know how to read in English but they might not understand the tone of the what is being said.
/English is my second language
//Have seen /heard pretty weird situations where cultural differnces are hard to transalate in another language.
///I'm not excusing the moderator, just trying to find an explanation.
Is like translating a joke, it looses all meaning and it might end up offending the audience.
Well maybe at the very least you need to assing a plane old name to each machine so you can make lookups with a "hosts" file.
Names don't need to be ".com" if they are used on a LAN. You can very well do "ftp saturn" or "telnet goofy" as long as those names can be reliably resolved to an ip address on the LAN.
I'm coming from the Windows world so maybe I'm not making any sense.
could someone copy/paste the first 10 rows of that list? It's an [F] article.
Well, I think the problem is to find a proper (diplomatic?) definition of what the chinese government is...
It is very easy from a "western" point of view to think adjectives like authorative, dictatorial, brutal, abusive...
Probably comparing China to it's neighbors would help define an aproximate description: it's not like N. Korea but it is certainly not another Japan.
At what point do we accept China's actions and where do we (probably just the US) put a strong stop to them.
Anyway, sounds like a nice thesis for a political science graduate.
Yes, absolutely.
But wouldn't you agree that the Chinese government lacks some of the democratic customs practiced in most of the world and that they excessively opress their people for acts that we take for granted?
Given thier long history of foreing ocupations and wars I understand that they want to ignore outside influence, but now by opening up economically it is hard to define what has happened to their communist ideals.
Funny it triggers after mayor news events in the west, i.e. death of princess Diana. Or reacts to what is reported on the 'western' media reports.
So apparently the rest of the world is not important enough for this thing to react to. Africa, North Caucasus, Nepal, Haiti... Have all had their share of human disasters but haven't been lucky enough for this generator to count them.
And the article itself mentions:
"Cynics will quite rightly point out that there is always some global event that could be used to 'explain' the times when the Egg machines behaved erratically. After all, our world is full of wars, disasters and terrorist outrages, as well as the occasional global celebration. Are the scientists simply trying too hard to detect patterns in their raw data?"
I think the interoperability asked by the parent post could be implemented in Outlook (or what ever mail client) by doing the steps you mentioned (copy file, execute file, manipulate data, re-attach to email) in the background so it would appear seamless to the user.
And all we are seeing is just a small window where all these processes are taking place. This little window would be the sandbox where there is no implicit security, the only operations are print, read and save on the same attachment.
profit!!
Mr. Gates, could you tell us what are the interfaces/protocols that aren't working when talking to OSS?
Microsoft supports open standards RIGHT?
Man, why don't you tell us why you really hate Java.
No, Java is not suitable (or useful) for what an engineer would call a "critical" application. Those applications are coded in C or C++ (or Assembler).
I'm using java because that was the business decision made by my boss (or my boss' boss). So I'm just told what I have to do (what interface the user expects, what system I have to connect to, etc.) But for the company I work for, Java might be a critical part of their business plan.
For example, you won't find java in a heart monitor in the hospital but probably find the server that keeps your health records is done in Java. Whoever is developing the Health record system can (more or less) pass the code to a new developer to continue working on it without expecting the new guy to be an expert on that particular system.
Anyway, this could all be bullshit if sound coding practices are not follow on ANY language.
Maybe because of the "delicate" relationship Apple has with MS, they just released iWork with the Word Processor and are waiting to see if it picks up.
/I can't beleive they wouldn't have a spreadsheet planned right now.
Later they can add the spreadsheet as a normal "upgrade" if market share starts to increase.
Data mining at it's best.
For a moment I thought you were living on Vancouver Island :-D
/Ferries suck
More like a hash key.
But I figured that all those big/little endian conversions have been taken care of by now, and that would help the implementation to new CPUs.
Probably that's just an impression by looking at so many flavors of Linux/BSD.
How can a processor be designed for UNIX?
/I know Linux != UNIX, but close enough
Haven't both, Micorsoft and Linux(et.al.) been able to port to different processors overtime?
Well, as mentioned elsewhere on this thread...
.Net, perl, php, etc). And it is very likely that you will need to move on to another company that seeks people in that new knowledge.
You can make a living as a programmer but you have to reinvent yourself every 3 years.
Otherwise you will fall into the trap that you mentioned. Say if you've been doing VB for 5 years, suddenly you are in big competition with everybody else or that type of work is quickly drying out.
So what do you do, like you say, to show 'forward progress' in your resume? You either take a management job (based on your VB experience) or update yourself (i.e. java,
I agree totally.
... Anyway, my point is, even updating your knowledge requires you to invest time and have patience until the market demands you to deliver on that new knowledge.
Sometimes when I'm trying to get up to date I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
For example, 2 or 3 years ago the rage was building around XML. After trying to understand it, I figured it was just a hierarchical descripiton of data in a text file (and is still is!!).
But what I'm understanding now is that practically all data that needs to be shared in a distributed system needs to be represented in XML. And if you manage to keep the XML data, you could do XSLT on it to add value before it reaches its destination.
And now with Web Services taking off, it all looks so obvious now...
Right on!
Belive it, it is not Funny.
MOD UP!
Yes, but it only takes one "ingenius" application that requires to download/upload several kBytes/sec to change that.
TV on demand, VOIP and Internet gaming are a few I can think of. It only takes the right marketing to generate demand and as long as they match the requirement of having DSL/Cable, everybody and my dog could be downloading megastuff.
$0.02
Firefox(with AdBlock) is your friend.
Yes, but because so many people where caught in the same situation AND it apparently is not a deffect that shows on ALL phones, is a little harsh to critizice them.
Of course now in hindsight everybody is kicking themeselves in the rear, but how could you possibly forsee this (for this particualr model). I bet some of these persons saw a glowing review or where promised wonders by the sales staff and that helped them decide.
Is not always black and white and that is the typical attitude I see in slashdot and newsgroups when arrogant geeks try to know it all and kick you down every chance they get. (I'm not implying that of you but that was my first thought when I read your reply, and made me click the reply button in a flash)
Anyways....
Excuse me, and how are you the wiser?
/now I realize I was feeding a troll, oh well.
When you go and buy a phone you first go looking for products that have SOME expetected reputation in their brand name.
Your comparison with a Porsche fails because you it is perfectly normal to have problems with a brand new Porsche, and guess what? You would still go to the dealer and get it fixed!
I couldn't help noticing Mr. Lindsay explanations of what a process would or could do. He kept describing it in the first person:
- "You asked me to do X, I didn't do it."
- "Aha, this seems like I should go further."
- "Oh, I see this as one of those really bad ones."
- "I'm going to initiate the massive dumping now."
Obviously he is an expert in his field but I'm not sure if he talks this way because of his personality or because there isn't a vocabulary big enough to describe it.
Would you imagine a medical doctor talking this way?
- "So the white blood cells fight with the cancer cells: die evil cell, die!!"
Or an engineer:
- "The little peg ask it's big brother : can you help me convert this energy into circular motion?"
Wow, we have finally found a way to contain all slashdot into one form.
All we need to do is just look at a graph with all the answers for every topic. No flame wars!! No gaotse!! No trolls!!
I feel the VOIP explosion is upon us...
Check this article from the Economist